A morta

Exposición / CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts / California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth Street / San Francisco, California, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
26 nov de 2019 - 18 nov de 2020

Inauguración:
26 nov de 2019 / 17:30

Organizada por:
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts

Artistas participantes:
Cinthia Marcelle

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Descripción de la Exposición

Cinthia Marcelle presents a new solo commission, A morta, in which she converts the galleries into a temporary radio station and stage, inviting the public to participate in live programming in the gallery and via an online platform. Alongside activation from the public, the 24-hour station is further punctuated by a series of programs—ranging from DJ sets and lectures to comedy and news. The work destabilizes the expectation of creative authorship in favor of collective decision-making, resulting in playful, dramatic, and unexpected interventions. The installation is structured around the Brazilian poet and writer Oswald de Andrade’s 1937 play A morta (The Dead Woman). In this forceful text, Andrade investigates the relationship between theater, life, and death, employing theater metaphors to express a fundamental impulse toward change. The play considers the social implications of an artist's relationship to art and the desire to re-engage art in the conflicts of everyday life. Similar to the play, Marcelle's installation is an instrument for its own transformation, and reflects the artist's own questions related to her practice in the wake of rising social inequality caused by multiple political and economic crises, both in the artist’s home country of Brazil and across the world.

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